You gotta juggle, before you can eat...

[DuckSpeak]

You should learn to bask in the light and glory of duckspeaking. It makes you much more awesome, although you certainly can't be the epitomal, archetypal exemplification of quintessential awesomeness. 

[Darkstormyeve]

Wow Duckspeak, is this level of awesomeness you describe similar in vagueness to recieving an award titled "Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence"?

 

[DuckSpeak]

Possibly, since true awesomeness is so awesome that no title could ever describe its awesomeness.
Maybe that is why the site simply referred as "moreawesomethanyou," without any limitations on the extent of awesomeness. 

[witch]

I had an option to only make instant meals once, but it turned out there was still burnt food in the stove that I couldn't see. Have you replaced the stove?

[sara_dippity]

It's late, and my monitor is going screwy, so have you mentioned wether or not you have diagonal walls? I have a problem with no food options appearing except for instant meal and juggle if there is a diagonal wall in the path between the sim and the fridge.

[Darkstormyeve]

I have diagonal walls but not in the path of the sim told to make a meal. Ummmm, I will check my sim houses abit more.

[cyperangel]

Well, At least I am not Utterly Insane.

I do have a diagonal wall in the kitchen, but it should in no way interfere with the walk path of my simmies.

And, although ive picked juggling as my method, im pretty sure there are other ways of unlocking the food in the fridge, i just find juggling the most amusing. Taking out an instant meal, or doing an inventory might do the trick as well, although I havent been able to use the two later options consistently. The one that seems to do the trick for me, is juggling. They dont even have to do any actual jugling, they just have to get close enough to the fridge, with the option queued. Just going close to the fridge actually seems to do the trick as well.

Come to think of it, moving a few walls around will probably be my next experiment, but you might be on to something with the diagonal wall. The layout of their bedroom is that all corners are diagonal walls, and as long as my sim with a mere 7 in cooking aint in the kitchen itself, there is only the instant meal option. I just ran a few more tests, and i guess i have to redo part of the house.

I will let you know if removing some of the diagonal walls actually have a curing effect.

As to having burnt food in the stove. If that was the case, juggling, or going near the fridge should have no effect. Im certain the stove works as intended.


/edit so as to not spam too many useless posts around:

I've moved the doors from diagonal walls, to regular walls, and now the family can once more use the fridge with no problems. Meaning, basically, if you have a door between you and the fridge, and its on a diagonal wall, you are going to live on Instant Meals. Creativity in designing interior walls apparently dont get applauded by the fridge.

[J. M. Pescado]

The logic behind that is entirely baffling. It's almost like there's actually an accessibility check, albeit a broken one. That'd be potentially useful if I could find it.

[reggikko]

/edit so as to not spam too many useless posts around:

I've moved the doors from diagonal walls, to regular walls, and now the family can once more use the fridge with no problems. Meaning, basically, if you have a door between you and the fridge, and its on a diagonal wall, you are going to live on Instant Meals. Creativity in designing interior walls apparently dont get applauded by the fridge.

I recently had this problem again, but this time it was an archway (all doors/arches are on straight walls) that was causing it. I frequently use arches instead of doors leading into kitchens. I used the new arches from the Grand Trianon Collection. For a while, all was well, then Sims could not use the fridge unless they were in the kitchen when I queued it. I pulled out the custom arches and put in Maxis ones. Still no go. I then put in a door and all was well. I changed the door out for a Maxis arch today, so I can see if it goes buggy again.

[Ancient Sim]

I knew there was something caused this and I remember now, having read one of the previous posts.  It's diagonal walls.  Before I added a mod that tells you the fridge capacity when you click on the fridge, the only way I could get Sims to cook a meal if there was a diagonal wall between them and the fridge when I gave the instruction was to get them to check the supplies first.  I daresay juggling would also have worked.  I think the fridge must 'lock', because with the smart serve hack I have in, the fridge locks for an hour once a Sim has started cooking to avoid another Sim cooking as well.  All that works then is check supplies, have a snack, etc.  Maybe whatever is used in that hack to lock the fridge is locking it for diagonal walls too, although goodness only knows what the connection is between the two.

[Hook]

I remember this problem being discussed on the Maxis forums, but I'm too fat and lazy at the moment to go do a search.

I do remember that if your Sim was in a bathroom, you couldn't click on the fridge to make a meal.  You could do juggle, or Check Food Supplies, but you couldn't fix food.  Now, why the bathroom is special in this regard is totally beyond me. 

Maybe there's an overly-fastidious programmer at Maxis who didn't like Sims thinking about food while in the potty.  Ok, let's really mess with them:  Put the potty in the kitchen!

I'd try this one out myself, but refer back to the first paragraph of this message.

Hook

[cyperangel]

Well, my sims are rarely in the bathroom when i direct them to make the breakfast, they are usually just getting out of bed, and thus in their bedrooms.
After removing the diagonal walls, and placing the doors on the boring straight walls, i again have access to all fridge menues

[witch]

...because with the smart serve hack I have in...

Is this one of Inge's? I don't recall seeing it around. Sounds good!

[veilchen]

Is this one of Inge's? I don't recall seeing it around. Sounds good!

No, its on MTS2. It's a nice hack made by dizzy-two (or dizzy2, they allow numbers in names )

G.

[witch]

Thanks Veilchen, you are a veritable fount of information! 

[sara_dippity]

I think I heard diagonal doors bug the maids too. They leave before their work is done.

[cyperangel]

Yep, they do, that was another side effect i noticed.

My maid simply wouldnt make the beds in the two bedrooms that had diagonal doors. I thought it might ahve been a side effect of me having used the SimVac on her, and was considering firing her to get her replaced. But after fixing the dors and walls, shes gone back to cleaning as she should.

Oh, and sorry bout the confusion with the smart serve hack.  For some reason my mind was determined that it should be a hack by Inge. Ops. *goes away and hides*

[dizzy]

Diagonal doors lock up two tiles at once. Given the fact that a door with one tile can stick for no apparent reason, diagonal doors double your pleasure.

Wherever possible, I avoid using walls, let alone doors.

[Darkstormyeve]

I remember this problem being discussed on the Maxis forums, but I'm too fat and lazy at the moment to go do a search.

I do remember that if your Sim was in a bathroom, you couldn't click on the fridge to make a meal.  You could do juggle, or Check Food Supplies, but you couldn't fix food.  Now, why the bathroom is special in this regard is totally beyond me. 

Maybe there's an overly-fastidious programmer at Maxis who didn't like Sims thinking about food while in the potty.  Ok, let's really mess with them:  Put the potty in the kitchen!

I'd try this one out myself, but refer back to the first paragraph of this message.

Hook

Yep, thats my problem. Had a play around with my house in question and yep, when my sim was taking a shower or just in the bathroom, no one could cook a meal.

I am not using a single maxis bathroom item. They are all downloaded objects.

[Brynne]

I just had this problem yesterday, for the first time. My sim was standing in the kitchen juggling bottles. I'd cancel it out, and she'd immediately queue it back up again. I'd never noticed her juggling before, but now she was obsessed. She was also very low on energy and should have been using that energy to go to the bedroom! What was kind of funny was that her uncle (who also was not the juggling type, a very serious sim) was standing in the kitchen with "juggle bottles" in his queue. He was waiting for her to stop! He was also in desperate need to go potty, but he figured juggling was the better choice, I suppose. I also had only 2 food options available on the fridge: instant meal and chef salad. Now that I think about it, it was in a kitchen with a diagonal door. They'd just moved in.

[Darkstormyeve]

Just remembered!! Yep, I have a one tile diagonal wall in my kitchen.

Curse anything diagonal in this game me thinks.

[PresentTense]

Note to self: dont put anything diagonal near your fridge.

[Darkstormyeve]

Additional note to self: don't put doors in diagonal walls as NPC's won't go through them to make beds, clean etc.